KPFA Poetry Festival May 14, 1977. From the folio: "On Saturday, May 14, U.C.'s S.U.P.E.R.B. Productions will present what will be the biggest poetry reading staged in the Bay Area since the Vietnam era, and perhaps the biggest ever. And all on behalf of raising funds for KPFA! KPFA and Pacifica have long been an important medium for the presentation of the works of contemporary poets. So it is fitting that KPFA now be the 'cause' for the poets and their toilers to rally around.The first...
Topics: KPFA Poetry Festival 1977, Ginsberg, Allen, 1926 -, Cody, Fred., Hawkins, Bobbie Louise., Harris,...
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Nov 18, 2004
11/04
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Aebi, Irene; Elmslie, Kenward; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Lacy, Steve; Owen, Maureen; Patton, Julie; Regan, Max; Taylor, Steven; To
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Panel discussion on the visual arts and perfection including the vision between amateurs and professionals, poetry and prose happening anywhere, black prayer meetings and improvising with words, and keeping the world safe for poetry.
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Second half of a faculty reading at the 2004 Naropa Summer Writing Program, with Heather Ackerberg, Brenda Coultas, Joanne Kyger, and Bobbie Louise Hawkins. This is the conclusion of the event including just the end of Hawkins's final piece, which was cut off on the previous recording. (Continued from 04P008)
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In this episode, David talks to filmmaker, artist, and author Pirooz Kalayeh about his latest release, Ctr Alt Del, his hyper reality film making process, embracing the mistakes, and how a traumatic incident in a barbershop as a young child lead him to explore his past in his current film project, Sometimes I Dream in Farsi. Plus, David takes a moment to celebrate the life of the late writer, artist, and performer Bobbie Louise Hawkins.
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Mar 31, 2006
03/06
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Christopher, Lee; Field, Thalia; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Jones, Hettie; Myles, Eileen; Regan, Max; Vega, Janine Pommy; Waldman, Anne
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First half of a benefit for the Boulder County Safehouse, a shelter for battered women. Female poets read their own work, and the work of other women poets. Readers include Lee Christopher, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Max Regan, Thalia Field, Julie Kizershot, Eileen Myles, Hettie Jones, Janine Pommy Vega, and Anne Waldman. The readings include Lee Christopher's "Sister Margaret," Sandra Cisneros's "Salvador late or early" (read by Julie Kizershot), and Janine Pommy Vega's...
In the class, Hawkins takes an interdisciplinary approach to the pedagogy of writing by exposing the students to a variety of writings both fictive and crititcal following the motto that 'education is teaching someone how to learn for the rest of their lives.' The discussion includes William James and experience, Colette and autobiographical writing, and reading selections from Colette's Earthly paradise. The class ends with a free-ranging conversation among the class participants. This is...
A writing class by Bobbie Louise Hawkins from 1978 at Naropa Institute. In this class Bobbie explore an interdisciplinary approach to pedigogy following the motto, "Education is teaching someone how to learn for the rest of their lives." In this Bobbie does not discuss writing explicitly, but rather reads from various works, both literary and critical to create an atmosphere of indipendant exploration in learning. This is class 1 of 3.
Among other tunes in no particular order: 1 - Nobody on the Streets - Timbercreek. 2 - Pound or My Dog Dad for Robert Downey - Ohio Knox. 3 - Slim - John Pisano & Willie Ruff. 4 - She Caught The Katie And Left Me A Mule To Ride - Teegarden & Van Winkle. 5 - Swamp Rock - The Ventures. 6 - Another Place, Another Time - Arthur Alexander. 7 - Telephone Booth - Hoyt Axton? 8 - Up On Cripple Creek - Buck Owens' & The Buckaroos. 9 - A Little Less Conversation - Mac Davis....
Topics: americana, roots, string, hillbilly, country-funk, songrwriter
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Oct 21, 2009
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Helane Aylon, painter.--Beatrice Berlin, printmaker.--Josephine Carson, Novelist.--Bella Feldman, sculptor.--Bobbie Louise Hawkins, writer.--Cherry Jackson, playwright.--Frances Jaffer, poet.--Eleanor Lawrence, photographer.--Malvina Reynolds, singer and songwriter.--Terry Sendgraff, dancer
Topics: Arts, American, Women artists
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Mar 31, 2006
03/06
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Jones, Hettie; Myles, Eileen; Vega, Janine Pommy; Waldman, Anne
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Second half of a benefit for the Boulder County Safehouse, a shelter for battered women. Female poets read their own work, and the work of other women poets. Readers include Lee Christopher, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Max Regan, Thalia Field, Julie Kizershot, Eileen Myles, Hettie Jones, Janine Pommy Vega, and Anne Waldman. The readings include Lee Christopher's "Sister Margaret," Sandra Cisneros's "Salvador late or early" (read by Julie Kizershot), and Janine Pommy Vega's...
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Feb 7, 2008
02/08
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Summer Writing Program faculty reading from 2000. Bobby Louise Hawkins reads from what she describes as a novel in progress tentatively titled Welcome to the Bon Voyage Hotel. Janine Pommy Vega reads from her book of poems The Mad Dogs of Trieste. Hettie Jones reads several of her own poems.
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Mar 31, 2006
03/06
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Blaser, Robin; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Myles, Eileen; Oliver, Akilah; Schelling, Andrew; Tejada, Roberto
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First half of a Naropa Summer Writing Program faculty reading, featuring poetry by Roberto Tejado and Robin Blaser, prose by Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and poetry and prose by Eileen Myles. (Continued on 01P055)
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Jun 9, 2004
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A performance by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Steven Taylor. The recording includes: Ginsberg accompanied by Taylor performing "1948: A Western Ballad," Hawkins's "Middle-Aged Woman Stardust Rap," and Waldman accompanied by Taylor performing "Contra Chant." Also included is an untitled song performed by Taylor.
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Topics: New American Poetry, Beat Movement, political poetry, Buddhism, performance poetry, Naropa...
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Mar 31, 2006
03/06
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Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Jarnot, Lisa; Taylor, Steven; Wright, Laura
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A reading with Naropa faculty members Steven Taylor, Lisa Jarnot, and Bobbie Louise Hawkins. Steven Taylor reads recent work including "Perfect pleasure" and "Pajama poems for Robert Creeley." Lisa Jarnot reads "Ode," "Song of the chinchilla," and other poems. Bobbie Louise Hawkins reads a piece called "All the livelong day."
A Bobbie Louise Hawkins and Carl Rakosi reading. Hawkins reads an excerpt from her novel The Sanguin Breast of Margaret, a short piece "Work and getting on with it," and others. Rakosi reads "The new world," "The realists," "Go preach Christ," "Old hickory," "The bottom line," and others.
Jerome Rothenberg class on ethnopoetics and performance discussing Seneca ceremonies, difficulties with serious poetry on TV, technology and individual experience, the dangers of obsessiveness, using comedy as a remedy, and the function of music. There is also an off-topic student discussion early in the class.
First half of a reading with Bobbie Louise Hawkins and Anne Waldman. Hawkins reads from her work "Take love, for instance." Waldman reads "War crimes" followed by performances of "Bardo corridor," and William Blake's "Garden of love," with musical accompaniment by Steven Taylor. (Continues on 02P085)
Second half of a class with Anne Waldman and Bobbie Louise Hawkins speaking on the theory and techniques of writing poetry, focusing on taking on other identities and voices as a writer. They read and discuss passages from a variety of writers including Gary Snyder, Robert Graves and Jerome Rothenberg. They discuss experimental writing techniques such as using the roots of words in order to generate new ideas. Hawkins leads a performance exercise. This half concludes the student performance...
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Jun 12, 2011
06/11
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Heather Goodrich, Kristen Park and Jenna Kotch respond to the June 17, 2003 panel discussion by Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Renee Gladman, Bhanu Kapil (Rider) and Laird Hunt.
Topics: perspective, identity, movement, sentences, prose, symbiosis, hybrid, cross-genre, feminism
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Mar 31, 2006
03/06
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Gladman, Renee; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Hunt, Laird; Kapil Rider, Bhanu
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A panel with Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Bhanu Kapil Rider, Renee Gladman, Laird Hunt, and members of the audience in a wide ranging discussion of writing fiction across cultures, personally and within narratives; how that fiction can be received; objectivity; and our currently multimedia-ed, overpopulated world.
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Mar 3, 2010
03/10
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Hawkins, Bobbie Louise, 1930-
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Topics: Canadian poetry, Canadian literature
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Nov 19, 2004
11/04
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Ginsberg, Allen; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Taylor, Steven; Waldman, Anne
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First half of a reading with Steven Taylor, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Allen Ginsberg, and Anne Waldman. Taylor sings "Who pays the piper calls the tune," "Invisible people," and other songs. Hawkins reads "Mrs. Florence Foster Jenkins" and other prose pieces. (Continues on 89P046.)
Lorenzo Thomas lectures on poetry and social action. He reads and discusses pieces written as social action commentary, such as "By the rivers of Babylon" (Psalm 137), The Declaration of Independence, Frederick Douglass's "What to the American slave is the 4th of July?", and poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar and John Greenleaf Whittier. Thomas also discusses Douglass's life in relation to the abolitionist movement, the civil rights movement, and the current situation in the...
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Feb 8, 2008
02/08
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Collom, Jack; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Waldman, Anne
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A memorial reading for Robert Duncan recorded Oct. 18, 1988 at Naropa featuring Anne Waldman, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Jack Collom and others.
Bobbie Louise Hawkins presents a lecture on the life and work of performer Camille Paglia.
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Feb 7, 2008
02/08
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DuCharme, Mark; Ginsberg, Allen; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Hollo, Anselm; Waldman, Anne
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Reading of Ted Berrigan's Sonnets. Naropa students, faculty, and friends read Berrigan's Sonnets in "round-robin" style.
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Poetry Show #7, November 11, 2016. . Playlist: 1. Broken Sonnets (live), 1:58. 2. Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (American Indian), 1:33. 3. The Chapter Of Changing Into Ptah (Egyptian)(live), 6:46. 4. Listen The Night, 1:43. 5. Mysterious Cat, 0:57. 6. Creatures (live), 2:59. 7. Pot Of Flowers (live), 0:43. 8. N+495 (live), 1:47. 9. The Logics, 6:14. 10. I Am Sitting In a Room (edit), 13:58. 11. Words Through The Worlds, 1:07. 12. The Boticellian Trees (live), 1:00. 13. The Bridge, 3:39. 14....
Topics: Anna Akhmatova, Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank O'Hara, Langston Hughes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stevie...
This cabaret with Terry Garthwaite, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Rosalie Sorrels took place at the Anspacher Theater of the Public Theater in New York City on November 12, 1979. The three trade stories and songs in a very informal manner. Garthwaite, a former member of Joy of Cooking, is a rock and jazz artist, while Sorrels is a country-folk singer. Hawkins is a poet, storyteller and illustrator with several books to her credit, including Frenching Cuban Pete, Back to Texas, and Fifteen poems....
Topics: Hawkins, Bobbie Louise., Garthwaite, Terry., Sorrels, Rosalie., Haber, Edward., Women musicians.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A Bobbie Louise Hawkins lecture, The sounding word. Hawkins discusses the writings of Werner Heisenberg and his uncertainty principle, Louis Zukofsky on defining poetry, Ysaye Barnwell's views of the effect of singing on the physical human body, Paul Valery, Michael Ondaatje from his book Coming Through Slaughter, and Charles Olson on verticality.
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Dec 10, 2020
12/20
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Bobbie Louise Hawkins lectures on Marguerite Duras: Imagining a Life, the first lecture in a four part series called Four Extraordinary Women. Hawkins talks about the life and writing of Duras, focusing on the book, The Lover. She also talks about autobiography as fiction and the writing process.
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Aug 12, 2016
08/16
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Dr. Jone Dae
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Poetry Show Podcast #5. August 9, 2016. Playlist: 1. Rodney On The ROQ, 0:16. 2. Watching Jeff Surf At The Beach, 3:01. 3. Bus Stop Van Nuys Blvd., 2:19. 4. Later For Now, 1:56. 5. Forgotten Melody, 2:59. 6. Only The Truly Lost, 2:45. 7. Soft Facism, 3:29. 8. A Western Ballad (1948)(live), 1:42. 9. Cowboy Heaven, 3:17. 10. Marina Del Dennis, 1:11. 11. Are You Drinking?, 1:51. 12. Soonest Mended, 5:07. 13. I Made Love To A Communist, 3:45. 14. In Walked Bud, 2:43. 15. For Pharoah Sanders,...
Topics: Dennis Cooper, Anne Waldman, Bob Holman, Charles Bukowski, poems, poetry, podcasts, Dr. Jone Dae,...
KPFA Poetry Festival May 14, 1977. From the folio: "On Saturday, May 14, U.C.'s S.U.P.E.R.B. Productions will present what will be the biggest poetry reading staged in the Bay Area since the Vietnam era, and perhaps the biggest ever. And all on behalf of raising funds for KPFA! KPFA and Pacifica have long been an important medium for the presentation of the works of contemporary poets. So it is fitting that KPFA now be the 'cause' for the poets and their toilers to rally around.The first...
Topics: KPFA Poetry Festival 1977, Ginsberg, Allen, 1926 -, Cody, Fred., Hawkins, Bobbie Louise., Harris,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
KPFA Poetry Festival May 14, 1977. From the folio: "On Saturday, May 14, U.C.'s S.U.P.E.R.B. Productions will present what will be the biggest poetry reading staged in the Bay Area since the Vietnam era, and perhaps the biggest ever. And all on behalf of raising funds for KPFA! KPFA and Pacifica have long been an important medium for the presentation of the works of contemporary poets. So it is fitting that KPFA now be the 'cause' for the poets and their toilers to rally around.The first...
Topics: KPFA Poetry Festival 1977, Ginsberg, Allen, 1926 -, Cody, Fred., Hawkins, Bobbie Louise., Harris,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
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09/20
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78 p. : 21 cm
Topics: American poetry -- 20th century, Artists' books -- 20th century, Artists' books, American poetry
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Nov 19, 2004
11/04
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Ginsberg, Allen; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Taylor, Steven; Waldman, Anne
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Second half of a reading with Allen Ginsberg, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Anne Waldman, and Steven Taylor. This portion of the reading features Waldman and Ginsberg. (Continued from 89P045)
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A short lecture by Bobbie Louise Hawkins followed by a longer lecture by Hettie Jones. Hawkins's lecture, "The quality of attention," focuses on finding one's voice as a writer and the necessary tools to do so. Jones's lecture, "Writer as witness," focuses on her life as a writer, mother, social activist and teacher.
A reading by Bobbie Louise Hawkins. She reads narratives from her collection, "Almost Everything," prefaced by a brief explanation of the material.
KPFA Poetry Festival May 14, 1977. From the folio: "On Saturday, May 14, U.C.'s S.U.P.E.R.B. Productions will present what will be the biggest poetry reading staged in the Bay Area since the Vietnam era, and perhaps the biggest ever. And all on behalf of raising funds for KPFA! KPFA and Pacifica have long been an important medium for the presentation of the works of contemporary poets. So it is fitting that KPFA now be the 'cause' for the poets and their toilers to rally around.The first...
Topics: KPFA Poetry Festival 1977, Ginsberg, Allen, 1926 -, Cody, Fred., Hawkins, Bobbie Louise., Harris,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
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Feb 28, 2008
02/08
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Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Jones, Hettie; Kyger, Joanne; Vega, Janine Pommy
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A panel of four women writers from the Beat Generation, including Joanne Kyger, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Hettie Jones, and Janine Pommy Vega, discuss their own work and influences as well as the context and history of the Beat Generation, and their role within that context.
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A Robin Blaser lecture titled Belief, doubt and politics. Blaser discusses Clayton Eshelman, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Lecture on the times," surrealism and romanticism, Victor Hugo, crucifixes and virgins, Francis Fukuyama and the end of history, Hanna Arendt, Lucian's "Zeus Rants," Robin Blaser's "Rose, Jack and Rexella Van Imp, Sappho and Ann Carsons, Martha Nussbaum, Ariadne and the soul as spider. The lecture ends with a question and answer session. (Part 1 of a two...
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Mar 31, 2012
03/12
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Bye, Reed; Corso, Gregory; Elmslie, Kenward; Foye, Raymond; Ginsberg, Allen; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Taylor, Steven; Waldman, Anne
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[by Ann] End of a colloquium on collaboration which starts on 88P007.
Bobbie Louise Hawkins presents a lecture on the life and work of performer Ruth Draper and performs some excerpts from Draper's work.
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Feb 17, 2012
02/12
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An anthology which includes poems, fables, plays, short stories, and cartoons
Topics: Literature, Drawing, Literature (General), Art & Art Instruction, Short stories, Art, General,...
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Jun 9, 2004
06/04
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Ginsberg, Allen; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Hollo, Anselm; Waldman, Anne
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A reading at the Boulder Theater with Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, with introductions by Bobbie Louise Hawkins and Anselm Hollo. Included in this reading are Ginsberg's "After the Big Parade" and the first reading of "Fall of America." Waldman, Steven Taylor and Elliot Greenspan perform works from Iovis. (Continued from 91p070.)
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Topics: New American Poetry, beat movement, performance poetry
KPFA Poetry Festival May 14, 1977. From the folio: "On Saturday, May 14, U.C.'s S.U.P.E.R.B. Productions will present what will be the biggest poetry reading staged in the Bay Area since the Vietnam era, and perhaps the biggest ever. And all on behalf of raising funds for KPFA! KPFA and Pacifica have long been an important medium for the presentation of the works of contemporary poets. So it is fitting that KPFA now be the 'cause' for the poets and their toilers to rally around.The first...
Topics: KPFA Poetry Festival 1977, Ginsberg, Allen, 1926 -, Cody, Fred., Hawkins, Bobbie Louise., Harris,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
First half of a class with Anne Waldman and Bobbie Louise Hawkins speaking on New American Poetry, including the theory and techniques of writing poetry, focusing on taking on other identities and voices as a writer. They read and discuss passages from a variety of writers including Gary Snyder, Robert Graves and Jerome Rothenberg. They discuss experimental writing techniques such as using the roots of words in order to generate new ideas and the role of the artist in society. Hawkins leads a...
First half of a cross-generational, all woman poetry reading at Naropa University's 2004 Summer Writing Program, including Joanne Kyger and Bobbie Louise-Hawkins reading unpublished poetry. Brenda Coultas reads ghost poems and stories, and Heather Akerberg also contributes a number of selections. (Continues on 04P008)
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Jun 9, 2004
06/04
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Coolidge, Clark; Creeley, Robert; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Hollo, Anselm
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A reading at the Boulder Theater by Clark Coolidge and Robert Creeley with introductions by Bobbie Louise Hawkins and Anselm Hollo. The readings include Coolidge's "City in Regard" and Creeley's "So There," "O Max," "Life," "Helsinki Window," "The Seasons" and "Body." (Continues on 91p071.)
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Topics: New American Poetry, beat movement, performance poetry
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Below are quite a few of the featured tunes though there are definitely more. 1 - The Unicorn - Shel Silverstein. 2 - One Meat Ball - Josh White. 3 - Passing Through - Dick Blakeslee. 4 - The Times I've Had - Marl Spoelstra. 5 - Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce. 6 - Help Me Make It Through The Night - Kris Kristofferson. 7 - Dark As A Dungeon - Merle Travis. 8 - Tennesse Stud - Jimmie Driftwood. 9 - Dubarry Done Gone Again - The Chad Mitchell Singers. 10 - Cloudy Summer Afternoon - Bud &...
Topics: zappology, mushroom belt-buckle, vietnam, fifties vs. sixites
